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Biosphere—The Remake

This time the test is Earth’s own ecological future.

By Esther Pearl Watson
March 7, 2016

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Esther Pearl Watson teaches at ArtCenter College of Design. She is the author of the comics Unlovable, published by Bust and Fantagraphics, and Blood Lady Commandos, on Vice.com.

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